Operated by by sister company Rising Moon Productions, our dedicated events space can be used for theatre, comedy, live music, events and everything in between.
Events in October–November 2021
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Saturday Night Special - Tom Blackwell
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Saturday Night Special - Tom Blackwell
"Anyone who has seen Tom Blackwell perform in one of the small,
forgotten venues across the North of England he has haunted for over a
decade will have witnessed a truly sublime singer-songwriter
distilling his blues, folk, soul and gospel influences into what Bob
Harris has rightly described as, 'Wonderful, heartfelt music'.The essence of everything Blackwell does is in his singing voice - as
plaintive and soulful an instrument as you could hope to hear. On
stage, he may punctuate with mournful harmonica and emphasise with
expressive guitar, but it is the vocal that is the heart-rending
centre of his art.Blackwell sings his songs as if he is living them. Authentic songs
that feel as if they are coming to you rolling across the plains and
through dusty mid-Western streets. Songs that present all the
emotional texture and depth of classic Americana - telling stories of
bruised hopes, and fragmented settlements between yearning and loss.Honest, without artifice, Blackwell's music just is what it is, and
that is something genuinely remarkable." -
Saturday Night Special - Nicky McCallan
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Saturday Night Special - Nicky McCallan
Nicky McCallan on Nicky McCallan:
"Irish immigrant playing the best rock n roll, bluegrass and country from 50s/60s/70s.
Some you’ll know, some you won’t, but all you’ll love."Nicky McCallan is a double award-winning singer/songwriter with almost 20 years experience of performing, recording, touring and writing.
Music starts at 8.15pm. Come and get a drink in Cee Cee's Gin Bar from 7.30pm.
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Bright Club - Manchester
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Bright Club - Manchester
The indivisible (and massively delayed) 37th edition of Bright Club Manchester will have the very best of research-based stand-up comedy.
Your compere Tony Kinsella brings you
Eamonn Kerins
Erin Beeston
Jenny Berry
more acts still to be announced
and music and banter from Nat Clare
£5 on the door.
Doors at 7:30. The show starts at 8 pm.
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Remembering The Way
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Remembering The Way
Join us for a love letter to the history of Moss Side. An emotional rollercoaster with DJ Fish and Carole, with stops at The Reno, The Shabeens and The Carnival, it's sure to be a night to remember!
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Remembering The Way
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Remembering The Way
Join us for a love letter to the history of Moss Side. An emotional rollercoaster with DJ Fish and Carole, with stops at The Reno, The Shabeens and The Carnival, it's sure to be a night to remember!
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Remembering The Way
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Remembering The Way
Join us for a love letter to the history of Moss Side. An emotional rollercoaster with DJ Fish and Carole, with stops at The Reno, The Shabeens and The Carnival, it's sure to be a night to remember!
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Remembering The Way
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Remembering The Way
Join us for a love letter to the history of Moss Side. An emotional rollercoaster with DJ Fish and Carole, with stops at The Reno, The Shabeens and The Carnival, it's sure to be a night to remember!
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Remembering The Way
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Remembering The Way
Join us for a love letter to the history of Moss Side. An emotional rollercoaster with DJ Fish and Carole, with stops at The Reno, The Shabeens and The Carnival, it's sure to be a night to remember!
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Bróccán Tyzack-Carlin: Turtle
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Bróccán Tyzack-Carlin: Turtle
Award-winning wordboy Bróccán Tyzack-Carlin presents a new hour of stand-up comedy and poetry about all sorts of stuff. Sex toys, turtles and the intersection of Marx and the Spice Girls get a look in this time.People will call this spoken word. But all words are spoken if you say them.
"At the top of his game" - Bunbury Magazine
"A star." - Broadway Baby
- Palatinate
"Outstanding" - Salford Star"Magnetic" - Review Number 9"Brutally funny" - Mark Grist"Explosive creativity" - Chris Thorpe
Saboteur Award and Manchester Word War WinnerBróccán Tyzack-Carlin: Turtle–
Bróccán Tyzack-Carlin: Turtle
New Show Added due to popular demand:
Award-winning wordboy Bróccán Tyzack-Carlin presents a new hour of stand-up comedy and poetry about all sorts of stuff. Sex toys, turtles and the intersection of Marx and the Spice Girls get a look in this time.
People will call this spoken word. But all words are spoken if you say them.
"At the top of his game" - Bunbury Magazine "A star." - Broadway Baby - Palatinate"Outstanding" - Salford Star
"Magnetic" - Review Number 9
"Brutally funny" - Mark Grist
"Explosive creativity" - Chris Thorpe
Saboteur Award and Manchester Word War Winner
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Verbose - with Lisa O'Hare and Dami Okhiria
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Verbose - with Lisa O'Hare and Dami Okhiria
Manchester's award-winning spoken word event is back in the real world in its new home at The King's Arms! Join us every last Monday of the month from 7:30pm for poetry, prose and everything in between.
We are ecstatic to welcome two wonderful headliners in Lisa O'Hare and Dami Okhiria, who will be complemented by our excellent bill of open mic acts.
All of this for free! Although we do gratefully accept donations to running costs if you are able.
This month's open mic is FULL but please do apply for your spot on future nights by emailing us at verbosemanchester@gmail.com once the next event is announced on our socials @verbosemcr . -
Fred
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Fred
I don't want us to be one of those couples who end up wrangling over every stick of furniture, every memory.
Trish and Danny are getting divorced. Now, all they need to do is tell their counsellor, Marc, and agree on splitting their assets. However, Marc has gone AWOL, Danny and Trish look all set for a custody battle, and their stand-in counsellor, Ellie, seems to have problems of her own.
Will they be able to talk their way out of trouble? Or is honesty not always the best policy? Oh, and exactly who will end up with Fred?
FRED, a new comedy drama, takes a look at the things that keep people together, and the stuff that drives them apart.
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Fred
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Fred
I don't want us to be one of those couples who end up wrangling over every stick of furniture, every memory.
Trish and Danny are getting divorced. Now, all they need to do is tell their counsellor, Marc, and agree on splitting their assets. However, Marc has gone AWOL, Danny and Trish look all set for a custody battle, and their stand-in counsellor, Ellie, seems to have problems of her own.
Will they be able to talk their way out of trouble? Or is honesty not always the best policy? Oh, and exactly who will end up with Fred?
FRED, a new comedy drama, takes a look at the things that keep people together, and the stuff that drives them apart.
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Fred
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Fred
I don't want us to be one of those couples who end up wrangling over every stick of furniture, every memory.
Trish and Danny are getting divorced. Now, all they need to do is tell their counsellor, Marc, and agree on splitting their assets. However, Marc has gone AWOL, Danny and Trish look all set for a custody battle, and their stand-in counsellor, Ellie, seems to have problems of her own.
Will they be able to talk their way out of trouble? Or is honesty not always the best policy? Oh, and exactly who will end up with Fred?
FRED, a new comedy drama, takes a look at the things that keep people together, and the stuff that drives them apart.
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Saturday Night Special: Funk & Soul
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Saturday Night Special: Funk & Soul
The return of our resident Funk & Soul DJ's spinning the best and wildest Funk, Soul, and all in-between until 1am:
Blowin' Wax presents Funk & Soul - Halloween Special at the Kings Arms, Salford.
Join us for our latest audio / visual feast combining bizarro-nostalgic 70s/80s horror imagery, with tasty, choice Funk & Soul cuts on vinyl, with plenty of obscurities, oddities and left turns thrown in for good measure.
Get tickets here, on the door or kingsarmssalford.com
Get up, Get Into It, Get Involved!
Music Genres:
Funk, Jazz, Soul, World Music
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QWEERSHORTS - Halloween Special
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QWEERSHORTS - Halloween Special
QWEERSHORTS - Halloween Special - our exciting night of new LGBTQ+ short plays, monologues and poetry but with a spooky twist!
Qweerdog want to use their experience of producing their own work, (Absolute Certainty?, OUT) to help other new writers take their words from the page to the stage. QWEERSHORTS is a regular night, with a mix of script-in-hand new plays along with fully rehearsed complete performances, all with an LGBTQIA bent!
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QWEERSHORTS - Halloween Special
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QWEERSHORTS - Halloween Special
QWEERSHORTS - Halloween Special - our exciting night of new LGBTQ+ short plays, monologues and poetry but with a spooky twist!
Qweerdog want to use their experience of producing their own work, (Absolute Certainty?, OUT) to help other new writers take their words from the page to the stage. QWEERSHORTS is a regular night, with a mix of script-in-hand new plays along with fully rehearsed complete performances, all with an LGBTQIA bent!
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The Colourful Greens
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The Colourful Greens
Join the colourful individuals of The Greens Family for a night of Romance, Drama, Suspense, Comedy and …Murder. Edward Green has decided to move on to his personal assistant after 25 years of marriage to Sally. Ruby, Sally's sister convinced her to hire a private detective to spy on her husband Edward. However, a blackmailing strategy from the Private Detective takes a sinister turn...So sit back and let all the twists and turns unravel in front of your eyes. Expect pure drama above all!
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The Colourful Greens
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The Colourful Greens
Join the colourful individuals of The Greens Family for a night of Romance, Drama, Suspense, Comedy and …Murder. Edward Green has decided to move on to his personal assistant after 25 years of marriage to Sally. Ruby, Sally's sister convinced her to hire a private detective to spy on her husband Edward. However, a blackmailing strategy from the Private Detective takes a sinister turn...So sit back and let all the twists and turns unravel in front of your eyes. Expect pure drama above all!
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Saturday Night Special - Cee Cee's Comedy Special
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Saturday Night Special - Cee Cee's Comedy Special
Following on from the wildly popular King's Arms Camden Comedy Competition, we present the very first Cee Cee's Comedy special.
Join our host, Colin Connor as he welcomes back the triumphant Tom Banks and Karl Porter to bring you a wonderful evening of Stand-Up.
We also have a very special guest who will be headlining the event.
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Entertainment Club
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Entertainment Club
Entertainment Club!
After being name-checked by the Guardian as one of the brightest hopes of the Manchester entertainment scene, Entertainment Club is back, by popular demand! Now in the luxurious upstairs theatre of The King's Arms, Entertainment Club returns with a widescreen cabaret format, welcoming not only stand-up comedy but also (though not limited to) avant-garde noise bands, sinewy performance art, and decadent gothic romance.
Hosted by Jim John Harkness ('Veering towards a breakdown'- The Guardian) the evening is an experimental space for exploding the confines of genre, where the audience bring no preconceptions and expect nothing from the performers, except, perhaps, a compulsory offering of their shimmering soul.
7th November then first Sunday of the month.
Starts at 7pm.
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Saturday Night Special - The Welly House Band
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Saturday Night Special - The Welly House Band
Following their debut online performance for the Chengdu International Sister Cities Youth Music Festival, The Welly House Band hit The Kings Arms for a night of punked up jazz shit. Support comes from local post-punkers; Harpans Kraft.
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College of Deviants Live - Stand up Special
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College of Deviants Live - Stand up Special
Join us for an evening of Stand Up Comedy by our collective of creatives!
Hosted by Cameron Jones this night will showcase new stand up comedy by a collective of creative people, most of whom have never done it before!!!
It's going to be a wonderful night... with a few surprises... NOT TO BE MISSED!!!
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Oomph
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Oomph
The land of OOMPH will feature four uniquely strange and hilarious comedy shorts, stories all the way from Athens and back to your grandma's kitchen.